Robin Hewitt

When Random House affiliate Hatherleigh Press offered Robin Hewitt a contract to coauthor "The Joyous Gift of Grandparenting" in 2007 she jumped at the opportunity.

"I've always loved to write, and really enjoyed helping my ex-husband with research projects for his short stories. I brought several grandchildren into our marriage, and the grandparenting book was a perfect follow-up to his nonfiction release "The Practical Guide to Weekend Parenting." We found we worked well together, and went from one nonfiction project to another while we were each writing online content and fiction on the side."

The next year she was awarded the Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Fiction Writers for her manuscript "One Sweet Pickle."

"I took a deep breath, and left corporate America to become a full time writer. That year Doug and I celebrated two book contract signings on the same day; a year and four books later we turned down two more."

"There were too many changes going on in the publishing world, and we wanted to have more control over our works. I spent two years writing nonfiction full time while I learned various aspects of online publishing such as formatting and search engine optimization, and by 2012 I was able to release my first novel.

Hewitt's trilogy is a provocative mystery thriller series.

"Crawford Hill has a lot of psychological suspense. The main character in book one appears to be a budding serial killer, but once he begins telling the story of his childhood the reader begins to wonder if he is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or if it really is something deeper and darker. I'm an amateur genealogist, and I often marvel how the actions of one generation affect those that follow. Some of that is woven into the Crawford Saga as the series continues."

With the second book "Crawford House" scheduled for 2014 and book three six months later, readers won't have long to wait.

"I started plotting book four in my mind yesterday, and I knew I was on the right track. After a certain point, the characters seem to write themselves. That's when you know you have something special cooking in the brain-chemistry lab."